And we're privileged to have Brother Mark Robinson with us. I met Mark two years ago, almost exactly two years ago, in Newark, New Jersey Airport. We were on our way to Israel and we had the church here had been supporting Mark and Cheryl for many years and we talked on the phone and anyway we went to Israel with them two years ago and if you're looking to go let me just say that if you're looking to go to Israel on a tour you ought to go with Jewish awareness ministries it's tremendous ministry and to just go to the places and have Mark open the Bible and others of his staff teach the word of God that was a blessing and one thing I I found with Mark that I wasn't surprised is that he's a Bible teacher and so when we have a prophecy day. know, sometimes people think, man, I'm going to hear something like, wow, right out of the news. Well, you're going to hear something right out of the Bible. The news lines up with the Bible, right? But Mark's a Bible teacher, you're going to find that and you're going to just be thrilled today. So, I'm not going to waste time on introductions. Here's the schedule, 10, 11, 5, and 6. Okay, so you've got a little bit shorter afternoon, but we're gonna have a five o'clock session. Just get right into the, give an hour teaching there, and then just six o'clock service. So, Mark, good to have you back. Welcome back to Sacramento. Thank you. Dennis is pastor. It's been many, many years. It's on. I did turn it on. Is it on now? Okay. Well, good to be back and have power. And it's been many years since I've been here, and I appreciate much the support of the church. My wife sends her greetings. She should have brought her with me. I told Dennis earlier, she was working in the yard yesterday and cut her finger and had to go to the urgent care and get five stitches. If I would have brought her, that wouldn't have happened. So anyway, thank you for your support through the years. We are going to look at a number of things in Bible prophecy. I will try to share a little bit about what's happening in the ministry. I'd like to share a lot, but don't have a lot of time. Got a lot of material to cover. So we're going to be looking at, initially, birth pains of the Messiah. And I hope you can see that up there. Birth pains of the Messiah and we'll see if, yeah, this is right, good. Jewish writings. In the Babylonian Talmud, the Talmud is the oral law of the Jewish people. It says this, the advent of the Messiah was pictured as being preceded by years of great distress. Now what we're gonna find out is that though Jewish writings say this, this comes right from the word of God. But the Jewish writings recognize this. Miller Burroughs in his Dead Sea Scrolls said, It was called the birth pains or the birth pains of the Messiah, sometimes more briefly translated as the messianic woes. So there's this expectation prior to Messiah coming, there are gonna be pains like birth pains, which start unexpectedly, but gradually increase in their intensity, right ladies? Those of you who have had children, I'm not going to ask the men about this. You may have been a witness to it, but you were not a participant, at least in the process of the birth. Martin Buber in Gog and Magog said, the world body must be in labor, must suffer great pain, must come to the brink of death before redemption can be born. For its sake, God permits the earthly powers to rise up against him more and more until the struggle be intensified into the pains or the pains of the Messiah. So great pain, great tribulation, great labor, prior to the redemption that will ultimately come. Again, the Babylonian Talmud, it says, why call these future troubles the birth pangs of the Messiah? Because travail precedes birth. And this travail precedes the birth of a new era. Now, they're right on the money. They're very correct in what they say. And that new era, we know, is the messianic kingdom, the millennial kingdom. Rafael Patai, in his book, The Messianic Text, said, the idea became entrenched, that the coming of the Messiah will be preceded by greatly increased suffering. Notice what he says, this Jewish rabbi. This will last seven years. And then, unexpectedly, the Messiah will come. You can be so close, but so far, right? Well, birth pains, according to the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, probably written by a man, ladies, but anyway. Recurring spasms of pain, which are not subject to conscious control, during which the woman in labor wriths, a process that can be accompanied by a sense of fear or anxiety, screams and groans. Do I hear an amen, ladies? At least close, right? Again, when it's a man writing it, you never know what's gonna come out. But more or less, that is the birth process, the labor pains that take place. Childbirth in the scripture is a picture of a number of things. It's a picture of all of creation. In Romans 8.22, for we know that the whole creation groans and travails, that's labor pains, goes through labor pains, in pain together until now. And if you think of an overview of the word of God, One day, the earth will be turned back like it was in the Garden of Eden. But it travails today. Tribulation period, excuse me. Jeremiah 30, verses six and seven. Ask ye now and see whether a man does travail, going through labor pains, the birth process. Travail with child. Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail? And this is called the time of Jacob's trouble. So it's equated, thank you, it's equated to the birth process, the labor pains. In 1 Thessalonians 5.3, for when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them. As travail, that's labor pains, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. And so the time period, what we would call also the tribulation period, is equated to the birth process starting with the labor pains. Matthew 24 in verses three through eight. Jesus was sitting upon the Mount of Olives. The disciples came on to him privately saying, tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world? Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. "'For nation shall rise against nation, "'kingdom against kingdom, "'and there should be famines and pestilences "'and earthquakes in divers or different places. "'All these are the beginning of sorrows.'" Sorrows is the Greek word, it's the same word as travail. All these are the beginning of birth pains. And I think this helps us to identify that these events and all of Matthew chapter 24 and 25 for that matter, which is the Olivet Discourse, take place within that seven year tribulation period. because the birth pains start at the beginning of the tribulation period, the seven seal judgments. So what I wanna do is I wanna take a ride about 30,000 feet above the book of Revelation, as it were. I want you to look at Revelation from an overview. and understand what is developing in light of the concept of birth pains. Because again, birth pains, ladies, right? You know they're coming, right? I mean, once you're pregnant, you know roughly the period that those birth pains are gonna start. Roughly nine months from the pregnancy. But you don't know the exact day. Certainly you don't know the exact hour. But those pains are going to come, and they are going to come initially, surprisingly and painfully. But the beginning of your labor is not the worst part, right? Don't they pick up, those pains, in intensity? Hopefully you had a short birth process of labor pains. but they can last 10, 12, 15, 20 hours. But when is the most intense pain in that birth process? At birth, right prior to birth. Well, that is what revelation is all about in a sense. It's a process of birth. And in the seal judgments, verses one and two, And I saw when the Lamb, who is Jesus, opened one of the seals, I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see. And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. Notice the Lamb opens the seals, Jesus opens the seals. This is the wrath of God being poured out upon earth. Verses three and four, he opened the second seal. Come and see. Another horse comes out that was red and power was given him. To take peace from the earth, we are told, that they should kill one another. There was given unto him a great sword. And then we have the third seal judgment. When he opens, Jesus the Lamb opens the third seal. Come and see, behold a black horse, pair of balances, famine, it talks about. And then we have the fourth seal. I told you we're gonna do a 30,000 view of Revelation. When he, Jesus, opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth beast say, come and see, and I looked. And behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death. and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, with the beasts of the earth. Now, consider this. This is one judgment right here. This one judgment, one quarter, 25% of the earth's inhabitants die. Now, I'm going to keep the math easy. We're going to consider the population of the earth at 6 billion. Now, it's over 7 billion, but it's much easier math if I do 6 instead of 7. And with 6 billion inhabitants of the earth, and forget about the church being removed and however many that might be, we're just using round numbers, that means in this one judgment, 0.5 billion people die. This is just the beginning of the birth pains. When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And so here we see there are many, many martyrs. that are going to, it's gonna take place during this time period. Believers, people who get saved in the tribulation period. The tribulation period starts, or after the rapture takes place. There are nobody, there's nobody on earth who is a believer. Where are all the believers? In heaven, they've been raptured, they've been taken away. I don't believe there's a long time period between the rapture and the start of the tribulation period. I think there is a time period between those two events. It's akin to the end of the age of the law and the beginning of the church. When was the law done away with? Calvary, when Jesus died, he nailed the law to the cross. But when was the church born? Pentecost, 50 days later. Is it going to be 50 days between the end of the church age, which is the rapture of the church, and going back to Daniel chapter 9, 27, that 70th week of Daniel? Perhaps. I wouldn't say dogmatically, but perhaps. But we do know there is that parenthesis, that time period between the rapture and the beginning of the tribulation period. But after that everybody on the Earth is lost. At the end of the tribulation period, in contrast, everybody who goes into the Millennium initially are saved. Many martyrs. The Sixth Seal Judgment. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell onto the earth, even as a fig tree cast her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. So great is this earthquake that every mountain, every island shakes. You know, you live in a earthquake-prone area, so that's why I left San Diego a few years ago, so we could be inundated with hurricanes. But anyway, I should've, you're aware, I should've been here last week, except for a lady named Florence. But anyway, not a very nice lady, as somebody said earlier, but it's good to be here today. This earthquake rocks the boat, if you will. How many people die in an earthquake of this magnitude? We don't know. Certainly there will be deaths. But the sixth seal has a great earthquake. The kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains, said to the mountains and the rocks, fall on us, hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, Jesus. For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand? The wrath of God is Jesus pouring out these judgments, it starts with the seal judgments. It starts with the first seal judgment. Every one of these judgments, the Lamb of God, the Lamb of God, the Lamb of God, He pours out that next seal judgment. The wrath of God starts with the seal judgments. 1 Thessalonians 5 says we are delivered, meaning believers, from the wrath to come. That is not the wrath of hell because we are delivered from the wrath of hell from the penalty of our sins at Calvary when we get saved. We are delivered from the wrath to come, the tribulation period, believers. We're looking for that. And that wrath starts with the first seal judgment, which starts right at the beginning of the tribulation period, which means that the rapture, pre-tribulational. Here's the seventh seal judgment. When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Now, one Baptist preacher said one time that this means there's no women in heaven. If there's no women in heaven based on this verse, there's no preachers in heaven either. So, now what it's talking about is the horribleness of what's coming. The SEAL judgments are bad. One quarter of humanity, 1.5 billion in our illustration, it's more, but 1.5 billion in one of the SEAL judgments die. What is coming with the Trumpet judgments picks up in intensity. It gets much worse, just like labor pains. The first angels sounded, and there followed hail, and fire mingled with blood. And they were cast upon the earth, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. Boy, the environmentalists, they don't like this verse. But this is, wait until the next session. Anyway, we're not through with this session, but anyway. If one third of the trees and the green grass, what does that do to the environmental ecosystem? It just sends it into a tailspin. What happens to food production? There's already told us there'd be famine. How many people die from the famine? But it gets worse because one third of the trees and the green grass are burnt up. And in the second trumpet judgment, There was as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea had life died, and the third part of the ships were destroyed. One third of the sea creatures. One third of the sea is turned to blood. One third of the ships, whatever might be on the seas at that time, are destroyed in this judgment. For a large part of the world, seafood is a very important staple of a diet. One third is destroyed at this point. The third trumpet judgment, the third angel sounded. There fell a great star from heaven. Burning as it were a lamp, it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of rivers, waters. And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became Wormwood. And many men died of the waters because they were made bitter. This is the fresh water. One third of the fresh water on planet Earth becomes poisonous. Many, we don't know how many, many die as a result of this trumpet judgment. Where the waters, the fresh waters of the earth. The previous one was the salt waters. This is the fresh water. The fourth trumpet. The fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, the third part of the moon, the third part of the stars, so as the third part of them was darkened. And the day shone not, for the third part of the night likewise. And I beheld, I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe! to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound. In the fourth trumpet judgments, one third of the celestial bodies are darkened. What does that do? As bad as the first four trumpet judgments are. We can only guess at how many people would die with ease. What's to come, the angel says. is so much worse. The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth. To him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit. There arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth. Unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. It was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass or the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads, the unsaved. They're the ones to be touched. To them it was given that they should not kill them, but they should be tormented five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man. I've never been bitten by a scorpion. Anybody have here? I don't know. I understand it can be pretty painful. Consider having that type of pain for five months. There won't be killed though, neither will they allow to end their life themselves. And in those days shall men seek death, shall not find it, shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. That's an awesome judgment of just pain. Talking about these locusts, they had tails, verse 10, like scorpions. Their power was to hurt men five months, They had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon. In the Greek, Apollyon, their leader is Satan himself. But then we come to the sixth trumpet judgment. The sixth angel which had the trumpet loosed the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. Those angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year to slay the third part of men. The earlier seal judgment, that one judgment, one quarter of the earth died. From six billion, 1.5 billion, there's now four point, not even considering the other judgments. There's now 4.5 billion people left. When we come to this trumpet judgment now, one third of humanity, which is a larger percentage obviously than one quarter, 33% of humanity. So if there is 4.5 billion on the earth at this point, that means another 1.5 billion people die. Two judgments alone, one seal, one trumpet, half of humanity is killed. Horrific. That's not even taking into consideration the famine and the poisoning of the fresh water sources, one-third of them, and so on. The Sixth Trumpet Judgment. It goes on about what's gonna happen. Verse 18, by these three was the third part of men killed by the fire, by the smoke, by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and the idols of gold and silver and brass and stone of wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, Talk about the hardness of the human heart. You think people would run to God. They don't. They harden their heart. They repented not at these plagues. We then come to the seventh trumpet judgment. The second woe is past, behold, the third woe comes quickly. And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ he shall reign forever and ever. And the four and 20 elders were sat before God, fell upon their faces and worshiped God. Now, I just wanna, real quickly, pause here for a moment. When the seventh trumpet judgment is sounded, We are told that the kingdoms of this world are now gonna become the kingdoms of our Lord, Jesus Christ. This is around the middle of the tribulation period. If the kingdoms of the world don't become our Lord's until this point and after actually, who do they belong to now? Satan. Remember when in Luke, I think it was chapter four, in the temptation and Satan takes Jesus and shows him all the kingdoms of this world and says, if you'll bow down and worship me, all this power, all this glory, that is mine, Satan said, I will give to thee. Jesus, in his response, never said, you're incorrect. They don't belong to you, they belong to me. He didn't say that. He just said, worship the Lord thy God. By his silence then, he was actually agreeing with Satan's statement. Satan, back then, today, into the future, until this point, until the end of the tribulation period, the kingdoms of this world are his. It doesn't matter what system it is. Dictatorship, communistic, socialistic, democratic, republic. The kingdoms of this world, including our kingdom, the US, belong to Satan. And he's having a heyday today. So all of that to say, and I don't want to spend too much, I don't have enough time, don't get too, entwined with our political system. It matters not really whether you're Republican or Democrat or Independent. Don't get too entwined with our political system. It belongs to Satan. And ultimately it will be destroyed. I don't wanna say anymore, that's enough. I have a whole message on that, but that's enough right now. But if the kingdoms of the Lord are gonna become trice, who do they belong to now? They belong to Satan. That's the seventh trumpet judgment, saying, we give thanks unto thee. And this is the opening ultimately of the bowl judgments, the seal, the trumpet, the bowl judgment, seven, and these are the worst of all of them. Birth pains, labor pains, pick up in intensity. Heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways, pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. The first went, poured out his vial upon the earth. There fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast. And then which worshiped his image. Some kind of grievous sore, painful on the unsaved, those who had the mark of the beast. And the second bold judgment. or vial, bold judgment. It says, he poured out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man. Every living soul died in the sea. Now earlier, the trumpet judgment, how much? One third, now 100%. Think of the ramifications of that. How many people die as a result of that? The third angel poured out his vial, his bowl upon the rivers and fountains of water, they became blood. And now, previously again, the fresh water system, one third. Now, 100% of the fresh water is poisoned. How long can you live without water? You can live a relatively long time without food. What, I think it's five days, seven days without water? Three days? Very short time. No fresh water. You have bottled water. You have desalination plants that might be around. How many die? Fourth, bold judgment, I heard another out of the altar saying, even so, Lord Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. The fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Men were scorched with great heat, and they then blasphemed the name of God. Great heat. Even worse than the summers here in Sacramento. I've been here in the summers, you know. It's a terrible judgment. The fifth bold judgment, the angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. His kingdom was full of darkness. They gnawed, so bad, so horrible, so painful was this pain, this judgment, they gnawed their tongues. The implication, even gnawed the tongues off. And continued to blaspheme God. Sixfold judgment, angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. The water there was dried up. There were three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon. This is the ultimate final judgment leading to what is referred to as the battle of Armageddon when all nations will come against Israel as it goes on. Verse 16, he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. This is Satan's final attempt to beat God. as he marshals all of the nations of the world to go to Israel where the Jews are to destroy them. To destroy Israel, to destroy the Jews is to destroy God, defeat God. It makes God a liar if that would happen. And the seventh bold judgment. The seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying, it is done. This is it, this is the final judgment. There were voices and thunders and lightnings. There was the great earthquake, such as was not. It's much worse than the earthquake mentioned back in the seal judgment. Such as was not since men were upon the earth. So mighty an earthquake and so great. The great city was divided into three parts. The cities of the nations fell. Great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. Every island fled away. The mountains were not found. There fell upon a man a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent, about a hundred pounds that being, and men again continued to blaspheme God. This last plague was exceedingly great. Islands disappear. Mountains are leveled. Cities are destroyed. How many people die? This is the earthquake of all earthquakes. When you have labor pains, you ultimately have a birth. I believe that the judgments of revelation, the tribulation period judgments, the seal, the trumpet, and the bowl judgments, that 99% plus of Earth's inhabitants die. Think of that, if I'm correct. It gives us two percentages. It gives us 25% with one seal judgment. It gives us 33% with one trumpet judgment. In those two judgments, half of planet Earth die. But the worst judgments are the bowl judgments. I think it's over 99% of humanity die. If we go to, it's over 7 billion people today. If 99% of humanity dies in the judgments of the tribulation with 7 billion people, that means only 70 million people survive. 10% would be 700 million. 1% surviving, 70 million. It very well might be lower than that. A lot of those 70 million, if it's 99% die, 1% survive, a lot of those 70 million are lost. They blaspheme God. In Matthew 25, you have the separating of the sheep and the goats. The goats are the unbelievers who are cast into hell at the end of the tribulation period. The sheep are those who receive the Lord and will populate the millennial kingdom. We know that two thirds of Israel, the Jewish people, are killed in the tribulation period. Today, there are roughly 14 million Jewish people in the world. So that means some nine to 10 million are killed, and five million then make it to the end of the tribulation period and call upon the name of the Lord. They look upon him whom they have pierced, they're saved. So there's roughly four or five million Jewish people who will go into the Millennial Kingdom saved. So there's 65 million other people, a number of those, are lost. They're the goats. And if you just want to take a 50-50 split, that means somewhere around 32, 33 million go to hell, and the others are saved, and so you start then the millennium with roughly 35 to 40 million people in natural bodies. About the population of California. the rest of the world dies. There won't be, anyway, I won't put in the liberal government. Anyway, if you have, if you have birth pains, you have a birth, right? That's the whole point of it, the birth pains of the Messiah. Well, you have a birth. Isaiah 66, five through 11. Hear the word of the Lord. Ye that tremble at his word, your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my namesake, said, let the Lord be glorified. But he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed. I find this a fascinating verse. The context is speaking to the Jewish people. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word. Now this is for everybody, obviously, by implication or inference or application. But here in the context is speaking of Jewish people. Your brethren that hated you, your Jewish brethren that hated you, See, the larger part of Jewry does not believe in the Word of God. And even the ultra-Orthodox believe as much in the oral law as they do in the Word of God. And they hate believers. Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, you don't find Jewish believers persecuting other Jewish people. But you do find ultra-Orthodox Jews persecuting Jewish believers. And they cast you out for my namesake. They say they do it for Jehovah. But understand, but he shall appear, Jehovah the Lord shall appear to your joy, and that's Jesus, to your, the Jewish believers, joy, and they will be ashamed. That's Zechariah chapter 12, among other things. And Isaiah 53. Many believe, and I would concur, that even though Isaiah 53 is a prophecy about the coming of Jesus, and his death, burial, resurrection, whole body. Many believe that that is actually the prayer of the remnant of Israel at the end of the tribulation period when they look upon him whom they have pierced. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And they are ashamed because they have rejected him. and persecuted their brethren who believed in him through the years. But look at verse six, a voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies. Then notice this, before she, Israel, before she travail, she brought forth. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Now wait a second. Wouldn't you like this to be the process in birth? You know, you would have the child and you wouldn't have any pain until later. Now maybe this is describing the teenage years. No, it's not, it's not, I'm just kidding. No, this is not natural. Before she, Israel, would go through her travail, her birth pains, the tribulation period judgments. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child. The tribulation period is still future. When did Israel deliver a man-child? 2,000 years ago. His name is Jesus. Who had heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? This is not natural, but we serve a supernatural God. Who has seen or heard such things? And then the question is asked, two of them, shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day, or shall a nation be born at once? Two things will happen as a result of the birth pains of the Messiah, the tribulation judgments, those birth pains. The earth will be turned back like it was at the Garden of Eden. The earth shall be made to bring forth in one day and a nation shall be born at once. All Israel, Romans 11. All Israel shall be saved. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced. Zechariah 12, 10. At the end of the tribulation period. For as soon as Zion travailed. When is she going through her birth pains? Tribulation period. She brought forth her children. God says, shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? Saith the Lord, shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb? Is Israel gonna be stillborn? Is God going to allow Satan and his minions to destroy Israel and the Jewish people? Is this birth gonna be stillborn? Yeah, in our world today, you can go through labor and that child can be stillborn or lost in the womb. Years ago, my wife and I, we lost a child in the womb. Probably some of you ladies here have had the same sad experience. Is that what's gonna happen? There's not going to be a birth? No. No. Rejoice with Jerusalem. Be glad with her, all ye that love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her. That you may suck and be satisfied. And the language is that of a newborn and mom. That you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her constellations, that you may milk out. I love the King James language sometimes, that you may milk out. But anyway, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. Israel will be born in a day. The earth is born in a day. Romans 8, 21, 22. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain. It's going through a birth process. And the worst part of that labor, tribulation. What happens to the universe and the earth? all those judgments and how terrible they are, but there's gonna be a renovation. Jesus said, Matthew 19, 28, verily I say to you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration, when it's made new, when it's restored, when it's regenerated, the earth, you're gonna rule with me. Acts 3, 21, when the heaven must receive until the times of restitution or restoration. of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." There's a kingdom coming, a kingdom will be like the Garden of Eden, it'll be a perfect environment, it'll be a perfect political system because Jesus is king, Jesus is ruling. It won't be like it is today, where Satan is the king of the kingdoms of the earth. And Israel is born in one day, when they shall look upon me, Jesus, whom they, Israel, the Jews have pierced. So all Israel shall be saved, as is written, they shall come out of Zion the deliverer, shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Birth pains of the Messiah. It's one of the purposes of the tribulation period. There's going to be a birth. Israel is going to be born in one day Tell your friends about what's coming. I mean hell is a lot worse Because hell is for eternity. This is only seven years the tribulation period but the birth pains of the Messiah, I think it's very close and tonight and the last message tonight is You're going to be agreeing with me on that, I think. So, let's pray. Father, thank you for this time. Thank you for the Word of God. Lord, what's coming on this world, the world has no clue, no clue whatsoever. Lord, the pain, the tragedy, the judgments, the turmoil, the death,